B.VTTLH OF Tlir: ALMA. 195 lip the lii;4ii-inGttled Vladimir in the midst of its chap. triumphant advance. I. PrnRrcM XXVIII. On and near the great road leadincr down to the bridge, Evans had been continuing liis difficult l^'illeS',y struggle. He still shared with the flames the pos- ^^'""^" session of the village — still held the vineyards below it ; and a part of his small force had suc- ceeded, as already shown, in crossing the river, and establishing itself under the bank on the Rus- sian side ; but beyond the ground thus gained, Evans had not yet been able to push ; for the Causeway batteries were so well placed, and so diligently served, that they closed the movitli of the Pass. The force around Evans was scant, but in other times he had commanded an army ; and whilst he Avatched the efforts of the only three battalions remaining near him, he was alive to the progress of the action in other parts of the field.* lie had just witnessed the onset of Codrington's brigade ; and he was sitting in his saddle tormented with the grief of observing that, for want of supports, the storming of the Great Redoubt was likely to be all in vain, when suddenly he heard the report
- The tlivee battalions iieai" him were the 47th (Adams's
brigade), and the 30th and the 55th, botli belonging to General Pennefather's. The 95th, as we saw, was carried forward in the rush of Codrington's brigade, and (with the exception of the 47th Regiment) Evans's second brigade (the one commanded by General Adams) was in another part of the field.
